Portrait de Madame Cézanne (recto); Six pommes sur une assiette (verso)

Details

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Portrait de Madame Cézanne (recto); Six pommes sur une assiette (verso)
watercolour and pencil on paper (recto); pencil on paper (verso)
10¾ x 8¼in. (27.3 x 21cm.)
Executed circa 1900 (recto); drawn circa 1891-1894 (verso)

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Acquired from the above by Paul Guillaume, Paris.
Acquired from the above by Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve, in 1933.
By descent from the above to the present owner.

Literature

L. Venturi, Cézanne, son art-son oeuvre, Paris, 1936, no. 1316, p. 312 (recto and verso titled 'Cinq pommes dans une assiette').
A. Chappuis, Dessins de Paul Cézanne, Paris, 1938, no. 44 (verso illustrated).
A. Neumeyer, Cézanne Drawings, New York, 1958, no. 59 (illustrated).
Génies et Réalités (series), Cézanne, Paris, 1966, p. 205 (verso illustrated fig. 145).
W. Anderson, Cézanne's Portrait Drawings, London, 1970, no. 88, (recto illustrated p. 109 and dated circa 1892-1898).
A. Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, London, 1973, vol. I, no. 1078, pp. 247-248 (verso illustrated vol. II, no. 1078).
J. Rewald, Paul Cézanne. The Watercolours, London, 1983, no. 384, pp. 178-179 (recto illustrated).

Exhibited

Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Cézanne, May-Oct. 1936, no. 166bis.
San Francisco, Museum of Art, Cézanne, Sept.-Oct. 1937, no. 70 (verso illustrated).
Aix-en-Provence, Pavillon de Vendôme, Cézanne, tableaux, aquarelles, dessins, July-August 1961, no. 51.

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Lot Essay

The recto of this sheet was page XXVII from the sketchbook CP IV; the verso page XXVIII.

Venturi, in his notes for the revised edition of his unpublished 1936 catalogue proposed a later date of circa 1900.

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